So for most of the day everything was working fine, then suddenly I can't select or deselect items. Well, technically I can by DRAGGING as I select (which is very inconvenient) but there's no work around for editing text (which requires a double-click on the object).

Now, I have Spotify installed but I've restarted without it running and yesterday there were no problems with Fireworks at all... so I doubt it's Spotify related. Everything else sounds the same though.

I've restarted, un-installed and reinstalled the program and closed all media programs I can see. Still broken. Quite possibly something else is interfering with it but I have no idea what (since I haven't installed anything new)

This is preventing me from finishing a pretty important piece of work, so I'd REALLY appreciate a response.

It was related to the Properties bar. Any time I was trying to edit/select something aligned in the same vertical space as the properties bar, it didn't work. If I dragged something to the side of the properties bar, it works!

Here's a picture to explain...

Glad this is finally fixed (I minimise the bar... a bit of a cheat fix really) but still.. what the hell kind of bug is this? :O

I was seeing the same thing and after going through Activity Monitor and quitting one thing after another I found my problem was being caused by AirServer. It must have been an update they pushed out as I've had that installed for a long time and not had the problem. I confirmed this by taking AirServer out of my startup items and rebooting the machine and Fireworks still worked as it should. Very happy to have things back to normal.

I have started having the same problem in the last few days. It seems Spotify have regressed the fix they originally put in place for this. I have raised the issue on the Spotify community forum and they are looking into it.

A lot of glitches in Fireworks can be solved by deleting the preferences file. First you will have to make sure your Library folder is viewable and you are accessing the root folder on your hard drive. In recent releases of Mac OS, it is hidden by default.

First, show your Hard Drive by following these directions:

In the Finder, choose Preferences from the Finder menu.

Click the General icon on the toolbar.

Select "Hard disks" in the "Show these items on the desktop:" section.

Close the Finder Preferences window.

Next, you'll have to unhide the library folder by following these instructions:

In the Finder, choose View > Show View Options (or press Command-J).

Near the bottom of the resulting View-Options palette is a setting called Show Library Folder. Enable this option. Your Library folder is immediately visible.

In that folder, find the Preferences folder. Then in the preferences folder, find the file with this name (or similar): "com.adobe.Fireworks.12.0.0.plist" and delete it.

It appears the instructions I gave you reveal the library while you're in your root user folder (home folder). You must be in this folder for it to appear in the view options. This is your user library. There is also a system level library, which may actually not be hidden in the root folder since the hard drive root folder where it resides is usually hidden. So once you follow the instructions to show your hard disk, go to that root folder and their should be a library folder where you can find system level preference file for Fireworks. I may look for this file and delete it in both the user and system level library, then restart and launch the app. I'm not sure if it is in both folders or not. Hope this works!

Jesse... - What you're describing is a waste of time. This problem in this thread has nothing to do with Fireworks'@ preferences, it is to do with other running software interfering with Fireworks. Deleting the preferences file will have no effect.

Not true. Sometimes it has to do with Spotify. Other times the deletion of preference files will work. This fix has worked for both myself and my staff multiple times, including just a few days ago. We use Fireworks almost exclusively for the work we do. Periodically, we have selection issues and are not running Spotify. This fix works every time.

Jesse, I work with Fireworks CS6 in both Windows and Mac, but only in the latest is where I found this issue (Just a few days ago and for the first time). I delete the file you describe some post before this and I don't have Spotify installed in this machine but nothing happend. But on my PC FW works fine.

Sorry to hear that. I hope you find a solution. Are you running any other software or is any running in the background? That would be the next thing I'd check. The preference file fix worked for us on the current software just a few days ago.

Same problem here for the last three or four weeks: I could only drag-select, not click-select. I happen to have three versions of Fireworks installed on my MacBook (CS4, CS5 and CS6), and when the bug appeared in one, it also appeared in the other two. Closing Spotify solved the problem. Chrome has no effect one way or another on my machine.

Fireworks is no longer supported and development was halted since May 2013 (and the last version came out in 2012), so it is to be expected that it will experience more and more compatibility issues with newer operating systems.

FW is living on borrowed time: it is a dead application. When FW CS6 was released in 2012 there were no such issues - and now there are, of course. And Adobe is not going to fix things - that is the harsh reality.

It might very well stop working altogether in an upcoming version of MacOsX and Windows at some point in the near future.

unbelievable... just had to quit spotify to be able to select things again... drove me nearly insane being on a tight scedule... adobe, please, please do continue fireworks, since it is still the only tool, that riped and streamlined over the years into the swiss army knife for web and ux designers.

Sorry to be the bearer of ill tidings, but Adobe will NOT continue development of Fireworks. Nor will they release it in the public domain.

This is similar to what happened to Freehand - a number of Fireworks users have even set up an initiative to convince Adobe to release Fireworks as open source. Knowing Adobe and its behaviour in the past, this will never be allowed to happen.

Reality check: Fireworks is dead, gone, and will soon be dust when more compatibility issues pop up due to operating system updates.

Start looking for alternatives, lest you find yourself with a non-functioning workflow, I suggest. I did, and I loved Fireworks. Letting go is painful. But having your work potentially compromised by broken old software is worse, in my opinion.

Been bugging me for a year... closed chrome and bingo, fireworks fully functional. Inconvenient perhaps, but less so than using FW with dragging to select etc.!! Thanks for cracking that... I didn't have spotify installed.

Concerning Chrome causing issues with selecting in Fireworks, I noticed that it was the Google Music extension that was causing it. Once I disable the Google Music extension, the problem stopped and I can now have Chrome and Fireworks open at the same time.

If you don't have the Google Music plugin and Chrome is causing the issue, I'd be curious if there are any other plugins that cause this issue—maybe disable one-by-one to see which one is the culprit.

I had this problem quite before using Google Play to listen to music on my Mac. Still, sadly is the fact that FW is "dead". Now I have to return to Photoshop.

By the way. I said there was a program called Gravit that is still on Beta stage. At his moment I don't recomend it. The program crashed and qhen I reported the issue, they just closed my post with no answer to what problem I had.

Thanks to everyone (esp. @Jesse... & @mrswarboys ) who contributed to this. I now know it was Spotify that caused all my pain. I also now know how to find those pesky user/library files that Apple chose to hide on me.

Thanks for this post, this bug was driving me nuts, although I thought I did not have Spotify program on my computer, but I did have a App installed called "Radia" which streams Pandora. As soon as I closed App, Fireworks all fixed, yay!

After getting my head burstung for days I figured out the solution, at least for myself. Hope it works for others too.

The problem seems to be with Fireworks running in parallel to any application which polls the internet, continuously. My culprit was Chrome browser. On deeper investigation, a extension installed in Chrome was causing the issue. Disabling that solved the issue.

A piece of advice : check for Internet applications such as the browser, spotify, any music streaming apps etc. Try disabling them.